She said that the empowerment of women today had allowed them to freely acknowledge enjoying erotic novels. “It was viewed as an outrageous thing to do. “In the ’80s when these books were published, people really didn’t want to talk about them,” Ms. When the “Sleeping Beauty” books were released. Rice, whose latest novel, “The Wolf Gift,” was released by Knopf in February, said she had been heartened by the openness with which people were discussing erotica, a far cry from It would print 350,000 copies of the newly designed books, titled “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty,” “Beauty’s Release” and “Beauty’s Punishment.” Sales in the first six months of 2012 were twice those throughout all of 2011. Publishers have raced in recent months to acquire, release and market more erotica to take advantage of the attention paid to the “Fifty Shades” books, which are the best-selling novels in the country.Ī spokeswoman for Plume said the publisher had recorded a sharp rise in sales of the Ms. Roquelaure.” They will go on sale on Thursday, released by Plume, an imprint Rice’s name prominently as the author, with smaller text beneath it that says “writing as A. Rice, by thenĪ well-known novelist, later revealed herself to be Roquelaure.) The “Sleeping Beauty” books were a graphic reimagining of the fairy tale, with Sleeping Beauty awakened in the opening pages by a prince who surprised her with more than a chaste kiss. Anne Rice’s “Sleeping Beauty” trilogy was published in the 1980s under the pen name A.
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